Training course
Pipeline Flow Assurance
Flow assurance for onshore and subsea pipelines: single-phase and multiphase flow, steady-state and transient analysis, hydrates, wax, corrosion and erosion, pigging and multi-product lines.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Outline
- 15 modules
- On completion
- Certificate from Z-Subsea Energies
About the course
This comprehensive course gives an overview of pipeline flow assurance through lectures, photo and video presentations, case studies and workshops. It explains the fundamentals of flow assurance design for reliable, safe and economical pipeline systems, from concept and detailed design to operation and maintenance.
The principal code is API RP 14E Recommended Practice for Design and Installation of Offshore Production Platform Piping Systems, which the course uses for erosion calculations. Hydrate and wax formation are modelled in OLGA.
What you will learn
The fundamentals of flow assurance
Flow assurance in onshore pipeline systems
Flow assurance in subsea pipeline systems
Flow assurance in single-phase and multiphase pipelines
Steady-state and transient flow assurance
Flow assurance in multi-product pipelines
Who should attend
- Pipeline engineers
- Marine engineers
- Flow assurance and process engineers
- Subsea and offshore engineers
- Project engineers and managers
- Engineers from other parts of the oil and gas industry who want to understand pipeline flow assurance
Course outline
01 Flow assurance concepts 8 topics
- Basic fluid mechanics
- Basics of fluid machines
- Centrifugal pumps
- Centrifugal compressors
- Reciprocating pumps
- Other types of pump
- Pipeline operations
- Thermal analysis
02 Flow assurance in onshore pipelines 10 topics
- Onshore pipeline components
- Pressure boosting
- Topographical considerations
- Pilferage and safety (case study)
- Flow control versus pressure control
- Considerations for multi-delivery pipelines
- Ullage calculations
- Special considerations for station piping
- Monitoring and leak detection
- Solved example
03 Flow assurance in subsea pipelines 4 topics
- Infield flowlines
- Export pipelines
- Separation of multiphase fluids
- Gas processing
04 Flow assurance in single-phase pipelines 2 topics
- Single-phase liquid pipelines
- Single-phase gas pipelines
05 Flow assurance in multiphase pipelines 4 topics
- Flow regimes and flow pattern maps
- Liquid hold-up
- Significance of gas–oil ratio (GOR) and water cut
- Slugging in pipelines
06 Steady-state flow assurance 7 topics
- Pipeline sizing
- Hydraulics
- Pressure and temperature profiles
- Well modelling
- Simple pipeline modelling
- Pipeline network modelling
- Solved example
07 Transient flow assurance 6 topics
- Shutdown analysis
- Restart analysis
- Flow rate ramp-up
- Flow rate turndown
- Cool-down analysis
- Surge analysis (water hammer)
08 Internal corrosion and erosion management 7 topics
- Introduction to corrosion and erosion
- Causes of corrosion
- Causes of erosion
- Calculating internal erosion
- Internal corrosion models
- Corrosion inhibitors
- Erosion calculations to API RP 14E
09 Thermal analysis of pipelines 4 topics
- Pipeline U-values
- Insulation requirement calculations
- Basics of cool-down calculations
- Solved example
10 Pipeline pigging 4 topics
- What are pigs?
- Types of pig
- Purpose of pigging
- Infrastructure required for pigging
11 Flow assurance in multi-product pipelines 6 topics
- Properties of refined petroleum products
- Pumping several products through one line
- Interface management
- Batching pigs
- Special considerations for aviation turbine fuel (ATF) pipelines
- Special considerations for LPG pipelines
12 Hydrate management 7 topics
- Introduction to hydrates
- Phase envelope and hydrate formation curve
- Avoiding hydrate formation
- Methanol or monoethylene glycol (MEG) injection
- Kinetic hydrate inhibitors
- Anti-agglomerants
- Hydrate modelling in OLGA
13 Slurry pipelines 4 topics
- Applications of slurry pipelines
- Slurry pipeline hydraulics
- Pumps used in slurry pipelines
- Special instrumentation for slurry pipelines
14 Flow assurance in waxy oil pipelines 10 topics
- Introduction to wax
- Wax appearance and formation temperature
- Methods of wax management
- Mitigation methods
- Heat tracing
- Intermediate heating
- Catalytic cracking
- Pour point depressants
- Wax formation modelling in OLGA
- Case study: Rajasthan crude oil
15 Flow enhancement methods 3 topics
- Drag-reducing additives
- Loop lines
- Intermediate pressure boosting
Codes and standards covered
- API RP 14E
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- Run in-house for your team, anywhere in the world
- Syllabus tailored to your project requirements on request
- Certificate from Z-Subsea Energies on completion
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